USB DRIVER FOR IMAQ

[alipio]

Hi Brooks
Yes. It works in my work PC (XP pro SP1 spanish) vision assiatant and vision. Lv7.1 and 8.

It does not work in XP sp2 german or spanish. It does work in XP sp2 english.
So I am quite positive there is some language dependency in sp2 that is not compatible with Ni imaq for USB.
Actually, I will had to go back to sp1 to be able to keep using Ni Imaq for USB.
I am not the first one to detect this problem. There are posts in machine vision forum about the subjet.

Cheers
Alipio

[Brooks W.]

Hi Guilherme,
I am working with R&D to try to find answers for this issue.  I will post back when I have an answer from them.

Best Regards,
Brooks W.

[alipio]

Hi
See attached doc whit  errors under XP pro SP2 spanish.
Hope it helpd R&D peple to track de issue.
Cheers
 Alipio

[Vision-USB]

Brooks,

 Thank you very much for your support.  Although this driver is not supported

by NI engineering Staff, I am sure it will benefit a lot of Vision practioners with

small budget.

THX !

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Alipio,

 You are really doing a very good job to our Vision Comunity , providing good NI fellows

like Brooks with good informations and feedback about your experience using NI IMAQ

USB driver.

Cheers,

Guilherme

[Brooks W.]

Hi Guilherme,
We are happy to assit our customers in any way that we can.

I have talked to R&D about this issue and they are aware of it and are going to implement a fix.  However, there is no defined timeline as to when the fix will be issued.  In the mean time the options are:
1. Roll back to SP1
2. Go to an Italian, Japanese, French, or English OS.  These languages have work with the NI-IMAQ for USB driver.

Hope this helps!

Brooks W.
National Instruments

[Brad]

We just put together a way to easily add support for new OSes for the USB driver.  Once you have the NI-IMAQ for USB driver installed (it is recommended to use version 1.1.0 put on the web 1-4-2006), rename the ImaqDirectShowDll.dll located in your system directory (C:\windows\system32\) and replace it with the DLL that is attached.  Then run a shipping example (C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW x.x\examples\imaq\imaqUSB examples.llb)  A popup dialog will appear with a string.  Please send a screen shot of the first dialog box to support@ni.com with an email title of IMAQ USB Foreign OS String and what OS you are using.

You can replace the ImaqDirectShowDll.dll with the original to get back the original behavior...within a few days/weeks an updated version of the driver will be available with support for your OS.

We have also recently added the ability to set the resolution of the camera programmatically to a supported video mode of the camera without using a popup dialog box.  The driver that has this feature is now available on the web.  Upgrading to version 1.1.0 which has this feature should break existing code, but the IMAQ USB Init will have an additional input to allow you to specify which video you want to acquire with.

Hope this helps,

Brad

[alipio]

Hi Brad
Once more, outstanding support from NI.
Thanks.
 This things ( since IMAQ usb is not oficially supported by NI) makes a company to be a leader and its users to be sure they will have a true and real help and support.

Alipio

[TCPlomp]

Good thing!

Does this happen to more drivers ( I notice the TDM plugin for Excel isn't international...)

But anyway I submitted the Dutch version (XPSP2)

Ton

Message Edited by TonP on 01-13-2006 09:29 AM

[TCPlomp]

So is submittd via email like Brooks suggested. And it returned with the question to submit on the forums so I will display my error code here.


This is the dutch code on windows XP SP2:
V.a.s.t.l.e.g.g.e.n.

Message Edited by TonP on 01-13-2006 10:33 AM

Message Edited by TonP on 01-13-2006 10:35 AM

[Brad]

Here is an updated DLL with support for Norwegian and Dutch...I will update the Example Program soon, but wanted to get as many languages in before I update the web link....make sure you have installed the latest NI-IMAQ USB (version 1.1.0) before replacing the DLL in the windows/system32 directory with this one.

Hope that helps,

Brad